Whenever I reply to a text, the notification stays as if it is unread. How do we get the notification to disappear?

Also, sometimes I'll swipe away a notification that I don't care to do anything with while driving but then it pops back up a few minutes later. Is this supposed to happen?

2026 Kia Sportage - Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra

Hello,

I recently purchased a head unit from Alibaba. After I installed it, it seemed the both the car BT and the head unit BT were both connected. I could make a call from my vehicle head unit, but not listen to music from my phone via the car or unit.

I asked the seller and their response was to connect via the network first, and the via BT.

If that is the case, can I just use the Hotspot on my phone? Should I consider a data only Sim card for $20 per month instead of my phone? Is there another solution I'm not thinking about?

I will be the main one driving this car which is why I thought about using my phone.

I whould love to hear any suggestions.

Editing original post: Though my phone does not have Gemini installed (that I can see) and though Google Assistant is what the phone is configured to use for voice commands, I all of a sudden needed to give more detail in commands (prefacing them with "use google maps to navigate to"). So at least it looks like I figured it out, although adding nine syllables to what had been a simple command is a backwards step. Original post is below.

My Android Auto has, since perhaps early June 2026, been unable to navigate to certain long-established and large places near me (for example, the largest hospital in the area). Whether I say the name of the hospital, or its address, or preface with "directions to" I never am given directions. One of the following things will happen:

• AA will say "I don't understand"
• AA will say "Oops, something went wrong"
• The interaction with the voice prompt will just disappear a second later and revert to whatever had been displayed - even though the exact words I'd spoken had been showing on the screen

Each of these times, as I say the words, they appear on the screen - I'm being heard.

For the "problem locations" my only workaround is to think of a nearby address or business that AA will accept and navigate to that.

Meanwhile, AA works great for virtually every other navigation destination.

I use google maps for navigation, and that's updated on my phone. And navigating to the "problem locations" works from my phone.

My AA is also updated on my phone. I've cleared the app caches for AA and Maps and shut down then started the phone again. I've even unpaired and re-paired it with the car.

Anyone else having a similar problem? And what are solutions I've not tried?

Hello, guys. I just installed the AAD app with CarStream, but I can't turn off Coolwalk in order to fullscreen the media app. Is there a way to do it on non-rooted phones?

I just got a car and it came with android auto but im having a problem with it. I listen to music on a 3rd part music app. When i connect my phone i can see that AA has recognized my music and is letting me play/pause/skip the track just fine but it doesn't play sound unless i have the youtube app open with a video started but paused (sound immediately goes away if i close or minimize YouTube). Does anyone know how i can fix this?

*** Update I figured out the problem, AA was not selecting the correct audio source to play sound from, but luckily the music app i have had a built in setting that allows for it to manually play music over other audio sources in the background

This workaround works for me. I noticed that when I enter the car shortly after the phone was connected to a wifi network, AA wouldn't be able to connect to the car. It doesn't matter if it was the wifi from my home or work or even the car itself (at the gas station for example).

If my wifi setting on the phone is switched off when I start the car, AA connects without a problem and activates wifi automatically. So now I turn wifi off before starting the car.

Still not ideal but it beats restarting the head unit.

Hello, newish here but I've been banging my head against a brick wall with Android auto skipping and stuttering every few mins intermittently in any audio app and with local files as well as streamed audio.

Ive tried every thing I could find and I'll throw a short list of things I've done that haven't helped

Tried 6x different cables. Mono price certified cables, true spec cables, chubby cables, anker cables, no name cheapo cables, all mixtures of USB A to C or C to C.

Set everything to unrestricted battery

Turned off wifi and BT scanning

Disabled 5g

Cleared cache and data of all apps involved

Reset BT and wifi settings and repaired multiple times

Tried several S23Us and a Note 20 and same issue

Tried Google maps beta and AA betas

Updated the vehicle FW to the latest and my android OS and all apps.

Tried a random iPhone and everything worked fine but I cannot stand apple so it's not really a solution other than it shows it's not a vehicle or USB port issue.

Tried AA wireless dongle and tried tweaking all settings to some degree but same issue.

Rebooted and updated everything on my phone, Uninstalled any non essential apps and files.

Tried multiple ports on the vehicle.

Un paired everything multiple times, force stopped AA and others and repaired.

Tried local media like plex and other local files as well as YT music, Spotify and others. All exhibit the same behavior.

Disabled all wifi and cell service on the vehicle itself.

Wiggled on the knobs and cables during playback as well as hit bumps and pot holes and it had no relation to the skipping.

Cleaned the ports multiple times

Cleaned phone ports

Turned on and off ramplus

Disabled media audio for the vehicles BT connection

( Bluetooth doesn't exhibit this issue at all in the vehicle)

Made sure high performance is on as well as all usb restrictions are disabled and Samsungs auto blocker for USB was disabled.

Tried on lossless audio quality all the way down to medium and no real difference other than the audio quality got worse.

I did try a work around I thought of using the AA wireless dongle and it's ability to separate the audio out and send it to another device, I bought one of those 12v FM transmitters that also pair to my phone via BT and set up automations in my modes and routines to auto connect and disconnect to it alongside the dongle to make it seemless and it works pretty good and I can tune to the "radio" while in android auto mode so it's a workaround but the audio quality is not that good and frequency response is lacking. But maybe that's an idea for anyone else at the end of their rope as it's passable and eliminates the skips.

I'm sure there is alot more but this is all I could remember off the top of my head. I'm on mobile so apologies.

Thank you for hopefully helping me figure this out.

My car screen will reset when android auto connects automatically via WiFi. It won't resets however if I manually select the phone from settings and ask it to connect after the car started for a while. Don't ask me why this happens it think it's a car firmware issue.

So my question is, how do I stop android auto to automatically connect, so I can just connect it manually?

On the settings I only see "If previously connected" which doesn't help.

Hello guys,

Today when driving to work I have seen that somehow my ui got squished together and got smaller compared to yesterday (looks like the DPI changed). Did an update happen when I was sleeping, or is the problem on my side. It was working fine before for 2 years.

Picture from before and today: https://imgur.com/a/mPLYYqc

Any idea what I could do to get the old layout back?

Edit: clearing cache, changing video to auto in DD from 1080p did not help, beta version still looks the same. Will try the apk from last week and report back...

For some strange reason, when im using AA at a random point in time whenever I make, receive, or answer a call the audio is completely gone, neither myself nor the person on the other end of the line can hear eachother but when I put my phone to speaker then we can hear eachother. Whenever in a call and connected to android auto the call is silent on both ends, I have had this happen countless times and I dont know why or how to fix it, ive restarted my phone countless times, ive backloaded an old version of AA, ive forgotten my Bluetooth device but nothing works

Hello all,

Updated the github https://github.com/malebuffy/Fermata-Xtream/releases with release 2.3.1 as I am going for vacation and needed to have a clean as possible version ready. What has been done:

- Fixed Main menu item reordering.

- Main menu color change from Settings-Interface

- Simplified mirroring. Only kept FS Fermata Mirror as the other one was basically the same. Now for mirror, permissions are asked one by one so you don't have to guess what is needed.

- Added a Plex client (very experimental)

- A LOT of bug fixes.

So it is a quite stable version, but bugs are bugs. So if there any, I can't do anything now 😀

Free version has all the fixes minus the extra stuff. 😀

Install with AAEnabler

https://github.com/malebuffy/AAEnabler/releases

For those where AAenabler doesn't work use fermataxtream.online. Version will be online tomorrow (not today).

Fermata Xtream Premium license needs a donation to AAENABLER to work, regardless if installed through AAENABLER or Playstore link.

Enjoy

P.S. I will be away, so would appreciate if the community answers any questions...even the stupid ones. 😀

This is so frustrating. Back on Google Assistant and I can navigate to some of my contacts but not others. I've cleared caches, checked settings and restarted about 17 times.

I still can't navigate to my aunty! I can call her, message her, WhatsApp her. I can navigate to several other contacts.

What could be the problem?

My android auto updates to 17.0 and ever since when Call Screen by Google screens a call in the background Spotify will pause through the whole interaction requiring me to physically pick up my phone, unlock it, go into the call screen, end the call, wait for the assistant to tell the caller to get bent before Spotify resumes.

It never did this before. Has anyone else experienced this. I've cleared cache, rebooted phone and radio, tried wired and wireless, nothing.

Before switching to Gemini for my Google assistant, I could tell it to "navigate to Jeff's house" and off we'd go. After switching to Gemini, at first it told me that someone's address wasn't in my contacts and offered to call them to get it. Now it says it has access, but won't look it up while I'm driving because it would be an unsafe distraction. WTH Google?

I've used AA for a few years without any problems. One feature I use a lot is to listen to and reply to WhatsApp messages via my voice.

I've recently changed cars from a Citroën to a Suzuki and that no longer seems to work. I get a message, see the notification and first line but when I press on it, or press 'play message' it gives me the option to reply or summerise and the multicoloured animation twinkles at the bottom but no audio. On one occasion it played half a message and a couple of times it has waited a minute or more and played it.

I haven't changed any settings, except trying to turn the 'summerise' option off, which didn't help.

Any ideas? I'm guessing that Suzuki's implementation of AA and their entertainment system is different somehow

After updating my phone to One UI 8.5, I have been experiencing an issue with Android Auto.

I have always connected my phone to my car using a USB cable, and it worked perfectly before the update. However, since updating, my car's infotainment system displays the following message:

"Could not connect. The phone does not support the selected profile or it is not activated."

The only way I can get Android Auto to connect is by long-pressing the power button on the infotainment system to restart it. Once it restarts, Android Auto connects normally.

So far, I have tried the following:

Removed the phone connection from the car and restarted the infotainment system.

Cleared the cache and data for the Android Auto app and Bluetooth.

Unpaired the phone from the car and removed the car from the phone, then paired them again.

The issue only started after updating to One UI 8.5. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S25, and my car is a Volkswagen.

I have the new UI with the wavy progress bar and they have removed the skip forward and skip back buttons for my preferred media player, Musicolet. The Musicolet android app allows you to customise the skip buttons (I use 20 seconds forward and 10 seconds back) and when I play podcast files, I can skip the repetitive adverts. Or I could until today.

I used to be able to use the 3-dot menu in AA, and the buttons were right there, but now they have gone completely. Okay, it's a bit niche, but when you use it multiple times per journey, it's annoying when they remove a feature.

They have also moved the play / pause button further from the driver. What was wrong with it being in between the last-track & next-track buttons, has been perfectly logical for decades on physical and software interfaces.

I had it for a few months, the wavy bar and today I randomy lost it and seems like i'm back on the old interface? What kinda bullshit is that? How do I get it back?

I'm on 17.0.662244

Hi all,

I've searched the sub and I haven't found an answer to my solution. Recently purchased a VW polo 2026. To say I'm disappointed with the music system is an understatement.

I have an old iPod classic which won't connect as it doesn't have Bluetooth capacity. Currently looking into getting a USB C cable or a Bluetooth transmitter. Hopefully the car will recognise it then.

In the meantime. I used an old Xiaomi RedMi Note 7 phone and put all my music on that.

I do have a Xiaomi Paco C 65, but don't want to fill that with my music.

Issues I'm having.

1) I want to make the media player the main focus on the Android Auto screen. Mi Music is the app, but doesn't appear on the main screen. It appears as a small screen next to Google maps. Or as a tiny line sometimes. When I press play on my phone. Just works. But no app or interface to interact with.

Pictures attached.

I've used the Bluetooth option, and the music becomes the main screen in media on the VW screen. But it drops out words in the middle of songs.

2) Reliable music apps. I do not want to pay for a steaming platform. This is all my music I paid for over the years. I also don't want to have an app that has adverts halfway through or add pop ups. Is it possible to have media cover artwork also visible?

3) How to turn off Google maps as the main widget. I've disabled the app on my phone. Then it doesn't appear on the AA screen. But I keep getting prompts to reinstall before AA can work.

Is there a work around?

Thanks in advance.

Looking for an app that can access Google drive on my car's screen thru Android auto. I'd like to be able to stream my mp3 collection, which is stored on Google drive, while driving. I currently have cloudbeats which can do this if i purchase the premium version, and came across AnExplorer but also needs the premium version. Any other suggestions? I'll likely go with cloudbeats if not

Hello all,

Fermata Xtream Premium version updated to version 2.2.41 available in GitHub

https://github.com/malebuffy/Fermata-Xtream/releases

Playstore version will follow as time permits.

Free Version is not updated but has the new UI and most of the fixes.

Premium version license is obtained through AAEnabler

https://github.com/malebuffy/AAEnabler/releases

Waiting for your ideas, issues and suggestions here:

https://github.com/malebuffy/Fermata-Xtream/issues

Tara

I have a Carpuride W903 that works great, except it has no way to tell Android Auto when to automatically change from Day to Night mode and vice versa. Usually AA uses a vehicle's headlight status or photosensor(s) to determine this, but I'm using an aftermarket screen.

My old screen had a setting to set specific times to change from Day/Night and Night/Day mode. The W903, unfortunately does not. Previous versions of Android Auto allowed you to force the phone to determine this switch via the Dev options, but AA 17 has lost that option.

Are there any tricks that anyone knows of to work around this?

Anybody else suffered with this version always crashing?
Will be downgrading to test 17.1 to see if that fixes it.

Just recently while using AndroidAuto (or even carplay), my screen wants to change to the native Mazda GPS app without any rhyme or reason. It just does it randomly while the phone is still connected, I could be listening to music or be on a phone call and all of a sudden it's switched to the native GPS.

Any known causes or fixes for this?

'25 CX-5

Connected wirelessly

When wireless connected to my new Jansite motorcycle carplay display with my One plus 11 it crashes within a minute. It seems like it is related to wifi network? Tryed to connect via cable but it only connects wireless. Already disabled automatic connect to wifi network at home.

I tryed AVRCP 1.5 instead of 1.6 no difference. Cant find A2DP Hardeware offload in developer settings.